he says he's in favor of american indians. hate american indians because of what he's doing to them at the gas pump. david: well, it certainly doesn't make any sense. i want to talk about the organization you used to be head of, the blm. >> that's right. dave david the misnamed inflation reduction act because it's basically a green energy spending program, they have all these new rules for the blm which dramatically changes how and where federal land becomes available for leasing, and i, just picking one example, in new mexico they have the san juan basin in new mexico, they have the potential of 100 trillion cubic feet of natural gases there. >> yes. david: they are worried that these new rules in the inflation reduction act could actually limit if not exclude some of that natural gas from getting exploited. what do you know about that? >> well, it's not just the inflation reduction act, it's the blm's own rules where they have, where secretary -- for example, put off limits hundreds of thousands of acres including land owned

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the american indian cultural center is subgrantee of somarts. does that mean that it will actually have any sort of physical space or still be a virtual center? >> i would ask--possibly to-originally ask joe joanne lee, but-- >> okay, hold on. go ahead and make ann a panelalist. >> great. >> ann, can you hear us? >> hi, can you hear me? >> yep. >> they still remain a virtual center. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> from what i understand, this is commissioner shiota, that there will be a lot of programming and hopefully cross collaboration between both the virtual and the somarts centers, is that correct? >> this is not for programming, this is general operating support, so not on topic, but happy to answer that question outside this motion. >> thank you so much. >> uh-huh. >> any other commissioner comments or questions? seeing none, can i get a motion to approve? >> so move, commissioner beltran. >> second, commissioner stryker. >> thank you so much. is there any public comment on this item? >> we will take in person public comment first. [

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i mean, the american west made sexier cinema. then then, you know, indians fighting militia, cambridge and alabama and whatnot. it's just something about the american movie was part of the buffalo bill and is wild west. so that that so you know imprinted the american west and that the quickly legendary fights against indians and american consciousness and also in the european consciousness the things that happened east of the mississippi were maybe overtaken by the americans war and other developments. and and never received the the attention that they they deserved or a recognition of how centrally were to the creation of the united states. now this is such a story that when you read the book and, it's a fascinating book. andrew jackson doesn't even really show up. like for the first third of the book, he's he's more of a character for the last two thirds of the book. so much the beginning of the book centers on the creek indians themselves investigating their culture the way back to their first brush with hernando de. how did you get at the creek indians?

like many american indian tribes, navajo people experience higher rates of preventable nutrition related diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, than the general us population. these health issues are not part of our heritage but the consequences of painful history marked by colonization, forced assimilation, displacement from our tribal homeland and relocated to reservation lands. historically our communities, farming, herding and hunting, there were nutritious foods, and it was systematically eroded over time, salt have replaced traditional food sources, and lack of transportation, congress established, a clinical response to the escalating diabetes epidemic in indian country. this program as mentioned earlier is a budget of $150 million, fund 300 community-based intervention programs to discuss type 2 diabetes. despite these efforts diabetes remains a persistent public health problem among our people. in 2,011 the navajo nation in collaboration with ihs changed their approach. we begin to engage local community input to develop and implement interventions that ar

the american indian cultural center is subgrantee of somarts.that mean that it will actually have any sort of physical space or still be a virtual center? >> i would ask--possibly to-originally ask joe joanne lee, but-- >> okay, hold on. go ahead and make ann a panelalist. >> great. >> ann, can you hear us? >> hi, can you hear me? >> yep. >> they still remain a virtual center. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> from what i understand, this is commissioner shiota, that there will be a lot of programming and hopefully cross collaboration between both the virtual and the somarts centers, is that correct? >> this is not for programming, this is general operating support, so not on topic, but happy to answer that question outside this motion. >> thank you so much. >> uh-huh. >> any other commissioner comments or questions? seeing none, can i get a motion to approve? >> so move, commissioner beltran. >> second, commissioner stryker. >> thank you so much. is there any public comment on this item? >> we will take in person public comment first. [provid

my relatives still revere the american indian because of that. >> maybe it was the american indian? >> it was. >> this is where i get a lot of good material for the second edition. were you when i was writing this book? those are wonderful stories. do we have time for another question? we have a couple minutes left. yes? oh, boy. that is tough. pat connolly's is great. -- helped me launch the book. ha we had the opening there. it is hard to decide. n' how do you decide? they are all in my heart. how can you love one more than the other? the best thing about pat connolly's, they do not make a big deal about being irish. e they were in the book, too. we don't have shamrocks on the walls. pu we are just irish and everybody knows it. we do not make a big deal out of it. it is low key, beneath the radar. yes? >> you mentioned that m?there an irish tenor around 1900? his name is, john. did you mean, john mccormick? >> i did. that is who i met. >> that is what i thought. do you want a good irish song? >> john mccormick. thank you for keeping me honest. i appreciate it. john mccormick. in t

american children. the programs in this bill were originally led by another arizonan back in 1990, through john mccain's indian child protection and family violence prevention act. that bill was part of a promise to answer for abuse that happened at native american boarding schools. but the programs have never been fully funded, were never authorized, and eventually expired. this is a failure by the federal government and the continuation of centuries of broken promises. by passing h.r. 663, we will take a step to right this wrong. we will create a national indian child resource and family services center to help tribes and urban indian organizations with training and program development. we will develop new intergovernment agreements between tribes and states to prevent, investigate, treat, and prosecute family violence. and we will encourage culturally appropriate treatments and services for children that have been impacted. in a place where we see a lot of bipartisan -- a lot of partisan bickering it's heartening to see so much bipartisan support around tribal issues. including my republican counterpart and

[c -- speaking in spanish] >> please welcome the executive director of national congress of american indianslarry wright junior. >> welcome. [speaking another language] i am a citizen of the ponca tribe in oklahoma. we are stewards of a shared vision of a more inclusive society. in this work, it is critical to acknowledge the unique journey of travel nations. our story is one of perseverance, resistance and resurgence aired as a native veteran, informal travel chairman, i have witnessed the impact of historical injustices -- resurgence. as a native american, travel chairman, i have witnessed the impact of historical injustices. they are rooted in the same systems of dissemination, president -- prejudice and oppression that affect other marginalized groups. this ongoing fight is a call to recognize the common ground we share with one another and reflecting on this historic day, i share the words of one of our chiefs, chief standing bear, who stated in a federal court case in 1870 nine that determined american indians were now humans in the eyes of the united states law. he extended his hand t

the museum of natural history where he stood outside on a horse with an american indian and african-american said we don't want that even though he and his family found the museum, i hope you don't have to take these statues. on some level do you hope you don't have to, to? to help the city wises up? >> you are so right. let me say thank you for all the books you bring. wonderful, it helps people stay interested in history. you do a great job, thank you so much but i hope i don't have to take these, i hope the city council and mayor adams comes to their senses and doesn't allow this to happen. these are great americans, they have flaws and have lived in different times, they had different standards but we still celebrate their contribution to the american experience. >> if you don't, i like to discuss that. if you want to add more context to history and make it more relevant, i'm fine with that. town supervisor, thank you so much, appreciate it. >> thank you for the job you do biting those books. they keep people interested in our history as they should. >> thank you for saying that. i'll se

an amount of time and argued the redskin name is based on historical figures that furth erred american indiansay you are doing what you proported not to when they changed the name. the national congressional group of native americans sasay they are erasing identity and we want a seat at the table. >> harris: what is fascinating and true about what emily said, how much a seat at the table did they previously have? were they making decisions without the people most impacted by this decision? >> kayleigh: yes, they were. i thought of a 2016 "washington post" article, nine and 10 nativeern ms say they are not offended by the washington redskins name that shows how few ord ordinary indians had been portrayed. you had 90% saying this and they were ignored because woke society must take precedence. >> harris: it is hard to get 90% to agree on anything. >> woke, this is distinct group of minorities or eggheads trying to change the culture, this is one little way the washington redskins, any reference to indians or braves they campaigned to scrap this stuff and in professional sports, they made the cl

the american indian cultural center is subgrantee of somarts.lly have any sort of physical space or still be a virtual center? >> i would ask--possibly to-originally ask joe joanne lee, but-- >> okay, hold on. go ahead and make ann a panelalist. >> great. >> ann, can you hear us? >> hi, can you hear me? >> yep. >> they still remain a virtual center. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> from what i understand, this is commissioner shiota, that there will be a lot of programming and hopefully cross collaboration between both the virtual and the somarts centers, is that correct? >> this is not for programming, this is general operating support, so not on topic, but happy to answer that question outside this motion. >> thank you so much. >> uh-huh. >> any other commissioner comments or questions? seeing none, can i get a motion to approve? >> so move, commissioner beltran. >> second, commissioner stryker. >> thank you so much. is there any public comment on this item? >> we will take in person public comment first. [providing instructions for public

my name is mary travis allen and i'm the advisor board president for the american indian cultural district, as well as a member of mission destino and other committees and councils here in san francisco. so i am ariana ortega, peace people of nicaragua. from my mother's side and the seneca nation on my father's side. i was born and raised here in san francisco and retired in 2020 from a senior manager position with the sfmta to after 32 years of service. but as i mentioned and what i'm doing now is important work that i am many of you are doing on behalf of our community is that work is never done and should be reflected in all the work you do and all aspects of your lives. we are brought together by our ancestors is to fulfill the prophecy of the eagle and the condor. the prophecy tells of this time when the indigenous peoples of the north and the south earth would reunite to renew you and protect our original knowledge, strength and connection to our earth. mother this is a time of reconciliation . mission. reunion education and healing of all the land and all its peoples. in case you do

resources since this time housing is one of a focus this needs to be implements for benefit of american indian when is the mir try to stroll line housing we should have i space to be or seat at the table to discuss the goal ands priors that the american inld yen community has prioritizes in recent years. our community is in need of fordable house thanksgiving stroll lines development without the housing element. under motorbiking our rights we should sill how our community electric and huwe sewn it fit. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. speak in the mic. [spoking spanish] >> >> i'm asking you it please preserve rent controlled united because thez of us in low income rely on rent controlled units to still here when than i are sold. >> i'm asking to you please, keep reason control without at this time rich abuse the poor. and so we are rely on rent control with than i say they buy the buildings to help us it is in the true they buy them for a profit. on without reason control, than i would, bus more of us. >> >> thank you. >> can we get the next speaker, pleas

the group called national congress of american indians, biggest backers include george soros open societyamerican community are rallying together to see the redscenes name brought back. one petition has 130,000 signatures. ari. >> ari: i used to work for the washington redskins on this issue about their name. when it comes to this issue, this was media driven sensation, not grass-roots of native americans. polls taken by native americans show native americans supported the name and thought it paid honor to their heritage. a few leaders did not like it and became media celebrities for dislike of the name. the commanders don't want the headache, they want a new era in washington, d.c. and don't want to look back, just win games going forward. >> emily: kennedy, to me, thisl such a broad brush entire community or ethnicity, you will have people who identify as members of the community that feel differently and you answer to or try to cram them into one box, you run into millions of exceptions. >> kennedy: or you speak for people, you take it on as your own. that is kind of stuff i can't stan

indian americans are encouraged by the very fact of india's rise. eryone in terms of toughness, billionaire vivik kramaswamy, a candidate for the us president, who has already come in third place in the election race, largely thanks to his radical proposals to lift sanctions on russia, eliminate the fbi, and prohibit the acquisition of citizenship by right. as in my case, if you were born in this country, you should have citizenship, but only if you were born under legal circumstances. trump himself is already considering whether to make ram vice president with you, after all, biden’s sworn enemy already has his own vice president with indian roots. indo-americans are taking over the country. if biden is impeached, haris will take his seat without any elections at all, and it seems indian prime minister modi will be only too happy. behind me sits the one who is making history. some play for blacks, some for whites, some now remember that chess was invented in india. the hour is unequal, rama will go with you on a completely extreme gambit and offer t

terrorism and does research that betters the lives of rural and remote populations with a focus on american indian and alaska native for -- native groups. ryan holds an m&a -- an ma. and is involved with a program at ut berkeley and san francisco -- uc berkeley and san francisco. tom is a nationally recognized expert on this information and violent extremism and specializes in the of data and evidence-based strategies to understand and counter these messages and extremism. he has studied threats caused by deepfakes, russian propaganda targeting the u.s. and europe, and the use of social media by violent extremist groups and has led researchers on the effectiveness of online interventions to prevent radicalism. he holds a phd from wayne state university. ryan, todd, take it away. i will be back in a bit for the q&a. >> thank you everyone for joining us. it is an honor for ryan and i to print that the reason those of this buddy we recently did. on a really important issue, affecting the nation. did you want to show the slides, ryan? next slide. we are able to bring this study to you because of the g

and fascinated with the american indian trade and so on. there's some indian heritage in our family. i was always wondering -- you and i probably grew up watching daniel boone. i wonder how much our frontiersmen like daniel boone, how much truth there was between the indians and our american government that they would seek all of his knowledge and so forth throughout the united states with all of our resources and everything, down rivers and things. i hate to imagine life from california said you had all kinds of people that would travel the rivers and how much -- the transfer of goods and so forth is like gold to those people. i am wondering what your thoughts are on the vital role that they play throughout. where they like daniel boone, that they had to converse with boones borough and have their meetings before they went to these wars and caused controversy? or was it give and take, let us take all we can get? my final thing is, something that my family taught me. a lot of people do not understand -- the chiefs of the indians -- they have

research and in a weirdly arbitrary way the government requires people to classify people as american indiansnot. i don't have time to discuss all those but they are in my supreme court review article so feel free to pick it up and look at it, thank you. >> thanks and let me say again our wonderful folks are working on the connection. i would invite he or she who is among you who never had a productivity issue to cast the first virtual stone. we are working on it so thanks for your patience. speaking of patients, take us through what was either an act of charity on the part of this administration or an impermissible power grab. >> i will talk about it as an impermissible power grab and i say that, let me say thank you to everyone at cato for this invitation, i wish every view was as efficient and as fast. how can the world function for a year without in publication our wise observations so that was amazing and they did a fantastic job. so one other little note here, this is a bit on the nose or on the hand. i got stung by a bee yesterday on my left hand and it must be some amount of poetic ju

>> yes i am i the first american indian. i am walla walla. [applause] [cheering] a dozen years or something like that? was i easily trace back my folks at least in the 1600s on my father's side. on my mother's side at least to the late 1700s. >> right now what you think the library of congress can do to educate people more about reading? right now you have made interest and focus on educating children about reading. why is that a big concern? are people learning how to read well? >> know they aren't unfortunately and as you know we have a situation where people can read but they don't read. so when you think about what is happening so the national book festival the library of congress puts on we are in our 20th year. first lady laura bush started it. she had a very successful in texas. my predecessor asked him compton doctor james billing said why don't we have a festival here? he said yes we will have one here and he started it. those types of things giving out literacy awards. >> some people come to the national book festival? text wesley b

my family lives in southwestern and still revered the american indians because of that. it was the cherokee. >> this is where i get a lot of good material for the second edition. where were you when i was writing the book? those are wonderful stories. great stories. i think we have time for another question or two. we have a couple of minutes left. >> that is tough. pat connolly is great. he helped me launch the book. we have the opening at mcgurk's. it's hard to decide. how do you decide? they are all my children. how can you love one more than another? they don't make a big deal out of being irish when i interviewed them and they are in the book, too. we don't have shamrocks on the walls. we are just irish and everybody knows it. we don't make a big deal out of it. we just are low-key beneath the radar. >> you mentioned that there was an irish tenor that was popular around the 1900s. his name is john? >> yeah. >> did you mean john mccormick? >> yes, i did. that's what i meant. >> that's what i thought. >> thanks. >> do you want a good irish song? >> where did i get mcl

his open society foundation funds a native american group, the national congress of american indianswho led the charge to retire the redskins going back a decade. finally succeeding in 2020. and consideration bringing it back now, a statement last week when it was shot down, saying ncai has a proactive partnership with the leadership ensuring harmful paths are not done with future generation. 90% of native americans surveyed support the redskins name. sandra. >> sandra: fascinating development, we'll be watching, thank you. >> protestors protesting climate change causing a major delay at the u.s. open. and it is not the first time that the group has pulled a stunt like that. charlie hurt will have a lot to say about this coming up. >> sandra: looking forward to that. and flashback to 2020 that no one asks for. face masks and possible mandates. they are back in the news. could this be an election issue once again? we'll ask juan williams and chris bedford, they join us next. ll wrong! what do you call a guy in face paint that can't get the game? ...a clown! sorry, what app was it agai

philanthropist george so rose whose open society foundation funds the national congress have american indians led the charge to retire the redskins name a decade ago finally succeeding in 2020, and their fighting bringing it back now tweeting a statement saying ncai remains committed to fostering a proactive partnership with washington's leadership ensuring that harmful pasts are not repeat wind future generations. as for dc's fan base we got a mixed reaction. >> i like the redskins, it was always the redskins, i was a diehard redskins fan growing up. >> i'm against bringing it back because i feel it could be detrimental to some demographics and not a nice term. >> reporter: trace when the pollsters asked the demographic group that matters most a 2016 poll by the washington post, revealed 90%, 90% of native americans sur saved supported the redskins name and logo. trace. >> trace: griff thank you >> meantime we have some breaking news coming to fox news at night. a tragic situation coming out of morocco talking a 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocking the high atlas mountains. nearly 300 people so

massachusetts, many of which in boston, and the highest overdose death rate in massachusetts is among american indians. followed by black and latinx men. the risks associated opioid overdoses continue to increase as the drug supply changes. and we see increasing levels of fentanyl a highly, highly potent synthetic opioid present. now there are subgroups of those suffering with addiction that are more vulnerable to overdoses, including those that are homeless and that are veterans. we're lucky to have governor maura healey as our here in massachusetts as led the nation in exposing the wrongdoing of the billionaire sackler family through suing purdue pharma and court for cause of the opioid epidemic. in 2020, she announced the resolution of claims against the nation's three largest drug distributors that is now providing hundreds of millions of dollars to address the opioid crisis across the state and nation. we are in need of urgent solutions to address this opioid crisis and the role that cannabis can play is only compelling. it's a practical, nonlethal and legal tool, and our public health and clinic

and my family that lives in southwestern cork still revere the american indian because of that spirit. it was the cherokee, you know, this is this is where i get a lot of good material for. the second edition, where were when i was writing this book, those are wonderful stories. great stories. oh, we've got, i think, time for another another or two is got a couple of minutes left. yes. never say never. oh, boy. that's tough. oh, pat connolly's is great. mcgurk's help me launch the book and we had the opening that at at mcgurk's. i it's hard to decide how you how do you decide they're all they're all my children how can you love one more one more than another? but then i think about pat connolly's is they don't go they don't they don't make a big deal out of being irish. when i interviewed them and they're in the book too, it's like it's like, you know, we don't we don't have shamrocks on the walls, you know, we just we're just irish and everybody it and we don't make a big, big deal out of it. so it's kind of low key beneath the radar. irish. yes. patrick, you mentioned that there was

you don't want it there american indian on the ground when he is on a horse? all right, we will take it. number two, that was a disaster. they boxed it up in the middle of a pandemic and moved it out like that was a priority. now with columbus it was safe because governor cuomo is reportedly italian he know what is columbus day means to the italian people and what columbus does, too, hence the district of columbia, columbus, ohio. columbia is everywhere. change at love names. take that statue out. the town of brookhaven says if you have a problem with this, we will take them all. the quote is you know, i didn't want to comment on this whether it was right or wrong with the decision. if you want to do that, hey, we will take the statues. that includes five -- by the way, that includes five george washington statues. so this is so important. donald trump said it. you want -- he goes you want to start taking down all these confederate generals? you want to have that argument. [what about slave owner all our founding fathers they all had slaves. we should get rid

i'm with the american indian community. i'm speaking to you. number one, no school closures. i will speak about educational equity. we are speaking, especially the american indian students who are more likely to not graduate from school as today's. but with more school closures. so what you're doing is consolidate the problems. if you don't know the problem, how can you have the solution? then i would like to know the data that you have about the cluster growth and that those demographics, which schools who have been affected and how it aligns with the economy here, where people cannot afford to live in this city, those are the things that you need to be honest about and forthright about if you want to build trust, you can't just expect trust without solving identifying the problem and solving them for the community. thank you as well. thank as wilma mankiller said, those that control the education of our students, control our teachers. thank you. hold that to heart. that does conclude our virtual public comment for this item. thank you so much to the public. for everyone who